Entrusted To God

Dan, son, I am thinking of you a great deal.  Soon it will be the anniversary of your death.  I need to work on the memorial site.  It appea...

Dan, sad man. Three plus years since that night when you tried to call me. I am thinking of that night. The pain is deep and dull and bur...

Tis your birthday, Daniel. It was 31 years ago that you were born. You live now in God's loving care, eternally His. You were a beaut...

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, fait...

Oh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling From glen to glen, and down the mountain side The summer's gone, and all the flowers are ...

Yesterday seems so far away. So much has happened in our world, in Virginia, what with the murders at Virginia Tech. We can feel with those...

April 15, 2007 Ray, I was viewing Dan's blog. I feel so moved by all I read and see. I keep a picture of him in the angel costume in ...

In the Booklet for Dan's Baptism, December 10, 1977, there is this dedication and prayer which his Mom and I put there with faith and pu...

When I look at the montages of Dan, I mourn. I don't feel everything that is in me because the grief would be unbearable. How did I no...

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Dan's Handprints at 5 years old I miss you when we're not together You grew so very fast You, a man when last I saw you and I, when...

I have no idea what we were discussing the day of this photograph. It looks serious. I long to speak with Dan again. He knew a lot and, what...

I keep thinking that I'm dying keep feeling like I'm going home (after a Tlingit song)

Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which child...

Had a little gathering today with Mom, Gill, Pierce, Ken, Toby, Maggie. We missed you, Dan, like we miss you everyday. Your sister Clare is...

It was only one hour ago It was all so different then Nothing yet has really sunk in Looks like it always did This flesh and bone is just th...

Tobias really liked Uncle Dan and now it's kind of hard to tell him that Uncle Dan will not be around anymore, that he has gone to Jesus...

Hello Ray, I read the blog this afternoon and thought it was very moving. It is clear that this time of mourning and loss is so confusing a...

Time moves fast since Dan's death, at least for me. The funeral, the visit to the cemetery, Adeline's grave where Dan's ashes wi...

Since that awful day when we found Dan, I have insulated myself from accepting that he is truly dead and gone from us. Only since starting t...

I remember sometimes taking Dan to the Washington Ballet in D.C. for class. He would forget to bring his ballet slippers or something that ...

I love you, Dan, I miss you, Dan. I pray for you and think about you all the time. I wish you were here. I wish I could see and touch you...

I saw you in a coffin Dead and Hard and Cold Not at all what you were before Warm and Soft and Gentle Then you were peaceful, quiet, still B...

Opening Hymn You Are Mine I will come to you in the silence, I will lift you from all your fear. You will hear my voice, I claim you as my c...